San Francisco, CA
SF COVID-19 response led to one of lowest death rates about U.S. cities, study finds
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s response to the COVID-19 crisis resulted in one of the lowest coronavirus-related death tolls among U.S. metropolitan cities, a study has found.
According to the study conducted by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), the city implemented “one of the most intensive, inclusive and multi-pronged” COVID responses in the U.S., leading to one of the lowest fatality rates among U.S. cities across all ages and ethnicities.
“Swift action informed by experience and data in San Francisco was critical to success,” according to the study, which was published in the academic journal Public Health Reports.
The department noted the city implemented vigorous mitigation measures, such as asymptomatic testing of vulnerable populations, and enforcing of masking in public areas and stay-at-home orders.
The study also cited the accessibility of residents to tests and vaccines, financial support for populations severely affected by the pandemic, booster recommendations, and maintaining consistent updates about COVID-19 as reasons for San Francisco’s curbed rate of transmission, reduced number of hospital patients, and lower mortality.
“The success of San Francisco’s COVID-19 response relied on quickly putting these public health principles into action and adapting to outcomes in real time through the lens of health equity,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco’s public health director and senior author of the study.
According to the research, as of 2022, San Francisco had a COVID-19 fatality rate of 98 per 100,000 residents, compared to 229 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people in the state of California and 301 per 100,000 in the entire U.S. population.
The SFDPH explained that this data was gathered by tracking the number of COVID-19 deaths along with excess all-cause mortality rates in the city.
In almost all age, race and ethnicity groups, excess mortality from COVID-19 was lower in San Francisco than in California overall, especially among people more than 65 years old,” the department noted.
The study, however, also revealed that even though the city’s COVID-19 response was exemplary, the SFDPH’s safety-net medical institution, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, was overwhelmed by COVID-19, straining the institution’s resources and staff shortage.
“Our public safety-net facilities need to fortify their infrastructure to face the next inevitable pandemic,” Colfax said.
He and other researchers said public health approaches and priorities will continue to evolve as new COVID-19 variants emerge.
The study can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10323495/.
A shooting in an alley in San Francisco’s Mission District left one person dead Saturday, San Francisco police said.
Officers responded to a report of a shooting about 4 a.m. on Wiese Street, an alley between 15th Street and 16th Street. The location is near Mission Street and BART’s 16th Street station.
The victim was taken to a hospital where they were pronounced dead, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the San Francisco Police Department’s tip line at 415-575-4444 or send a text to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.
San Francisco, CA
The EndUp Turns 50 and They're Taking Over Union Square With a Dance Party Saturday
That venerable, inimitable, sloppy palace of bad decisions The EndUp was born 50 (and a half) years ago, and they’re now getting around to celebrating — appropriately kinda late — with a Union Square takeover dance party.
Once upon a time in an era of SoMa dominated by leather and country-and-western bars (The Stud, after all, began as a country-and-western themed bar, hence the double-entendre name), The EndUp was born. It was actually born in mid-November 1973, as a sibling establishment to The RoundUp, a western bar one block up 6th Street, owned by Al Hanken and Greg Loughner.
The bar was primarily gay from the 70s into the 90s, becoming known starting in 1974 for its Jockey Shorts Dance Contest — which was featured in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City column in the Chronicle and subsequently featured in the PBS mini-series based on the first book of those columns.
It was always known as a big dance bar with indoor and outdoor spaces, and as an after-hours club — and the latter has made it legendary in an IYKYK kind of way.
In the 90s, it was home to the legendary Club Uranus, which birthed such stars as Justin Vivian Bond, Heklina, Kitty Litter, and Trauma Flintstone. And Fag Fridays launched in 1996 and ran through 2008, featuring an array of LGTBQ club DJs from the Bay Area including Ellen Ferrato and resident DJ David Harness.
After a series of ownership changes and the demise of those weekly LGBTQ events, the club became more mixed and attracted various crowds to events like Sunrise Sunday. And some bad vibes arrived in 2016 with two separate fatal shooting incidents that could have threatened the club’s existence — one in June 2016 that took place inside the club, and one that took place outside in October 2016.
But The EndUp has endured, it was granted Legacy Business status by the city in 2019, and Saturday, June 15 will be a big 50th birthday bash in Union Square — potentially drawing a pretty huge crowd.
Given that the actual birthday was seven months ago, the Facebook invite just calls this party a “fashionably late” one.
“Known as San Francisco’s most legendary after-hours nightclub and premier day-club, @endupsf celebrates dance culture fifty years strong since 1973,” the club says.
DJs include Oscar G, Paul Goodyear, Dean Samaras, Brian Salazar, and Hawthorne. (See the DJ bios here.)
The free party in Union Square runs from 1 pm to 9 pm, Saturday — and, of course, the party continues at The EndUp after that, with DJ Oscar G doing an encore set, joined by DJs Hawthorne, Steve Fabus, and more.
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